Excerpt from The Capture of Louisbourg But alas! On the 20th of October, 1740, died Charles VI the emperor of Germany. But what was there about the death of this estimable Austrian gentleman, at 55 years of age, of a gall-stone in his liver, at a remote European town, to affect the course of New England story? Why. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the ...
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Excerpt from The Capture of Louisbourg But alas! On the 20th of October, 1740, died Charles VI the emperor of Germany. But what was there about the death of this estimable Austrian gentleman, at 55 years of age, of a gall-stone in his liver, at a remote European town, to affect the course of New England story? Why. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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